Nagios is a popular, open-source infrastructure and networking monitoring platform. It is a flexible monitoring platform that can easily be extended to support database, platform and application monitoring also. The Kurian's version of AMI provides many plugins as well that are included on the AMI.

The Kurian's Nagios Core Server AMI contains Nagios Core 4 and the out of the box plugins.

To install Nagios server the application code has to be built and supporting software like Apache, PHP and Perl be installed. This secured AMI is baked in with an installed version of Nagios Core, and, the nagiosadmin password is tied to the EC2 instance id.

The Nagios Core version supported on the AMI is 4.4.5.